tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post111586373109796618..comments2019-09-14T06:45:54.882-05:00Comments on Amardeep Singh: Amit Chaudhuri on audiences and exoticismelectrostanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-1134837587738648862005-12-17T11:39:00.000-05:002005-12-17T11:39:00.000-05:00Amit Chaudhuri is one of the finest writers in the...Amit Chaudhuri is one of the finest writers in the English language I think. He has edited the Picador Anthology of Modern Indian Literature not the VintageBook which Rushdie edited in fact! As for the introductions to the extracts in this anthology, they are not just fine pieces of writing; they take us back to a time when only those who could write well wrote, not like our times, where Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-1116055585238392462005-05-14T02:26:00.000-05:002005-05-14T02:26:00.000-05:00speaking of anthologies, i just ran into one in th...speaking of anthologies, i just ran into one in the bookstore the other day- <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618576800/qid=1116055412/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-9919591-8450228?v=glance&s=books&n=507846" REL="nofollow">story-wallah</A> edited by shyam selvadurai, claims to be an anthology of south asian short fiction- and from a cursory glance looks rather anunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-1116044360533753362005-05-13T23:19:00.000-05:002005-05-13T23:19:00.000-05:00nice post. freedom song is good, actually i like i...nice post. freedom song is good, actually i like it the best of all his novels. btw, that's the vintage book of modern <I>indian</I> literature.umahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01578048005614408340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-1115907074836297392005-05-12T09:11:00.000-05:002005-05-12T09:11:00.000-05:00Coolie, I like that sentence too. I think what he'...Coolie, <BR/>I like that sentence too. <BR/><BR/>I think what he's getting at here is an argument that there is no "strong" principle or scientific framework that explains the interaction of writers, texts, and readers.Amardeephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-1115900500225585982005-05-12T07:21:00.000-05:002005-05-12T07:21:00.000-05:00I always look forward to reading Amit Chaudhri's e...I always look forward to reading Amit Chaudhri's essays.<BR/><BR/>I found this particularly interesting:<BR/><BR/><B>It’s not only the reader who takes the decision of rejecting or accepting a writer; the writer, too, depending on what his objective is at that moment, and how he means to achieve it, gives himself to, or withholds himself from, the reader</B><BR/><BR/>The essays that form the cooliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00352345932569236207noreply@blogger.com